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| How can I find where to set up a cron job. in the help i found this but in DirectAdmin there is no link "cron jobs". Do it have to be switch on? |
| Peterssidan wrote: |
| the cron jobs is turned OFF for me. Is there a way to turn it on? |
| pluto wrote: |
| I have yet to find an answer to my earlier post: why cron jobs runs when I set it to run every 5 minutes, but does not run when I set it to run every 30 minutes.
Can anyone provide any insight as to why this is happening? Thanks. |
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| I spoke to Bondings about this.
He thinks there's probably a problem with your script. Maybe you'd like to share that for some scrutiny? |
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#!/usr/bin/python from __future__ import generators import time def capital(f): '''capitalizes first letter in each name, stores in list, returns list''' cap = [] for name in f: cap.append(name.capitalize()) return cap def remove(x): '''removes end of line character from list, returns new list''' rem = [] for item in x: rem.append(item.rstrip('\n')) return rem def count(c): '''counts number of times item in list,turns list into dictionary, returns dictionary''' z ={} for i in c: number = c.count(i) z[i] = number return z def empty(dictionary,character): '''removes character from dictionary, returns dictionary''' if dictionary.has_key(character): del dictionary[character] return dictionary else: return dictionary def pairs(x): '''Converts dictionary into list and sorts list by number''' items = x.items() items.sort(lambda x,y: cmp(x[1],y[1])) #items.sort(key=lambda item:item[1]) items.reverse() return items def listprint(x): '''runs while loop,putting data into html table''' y = len(x) place = 0 while y > 0: yield ''' <tr> <td>%s %s</td> </tr> '''%(x[place]) place = place + 1 y = y - 1 #variables #line below opens file on server f=open('/path_to_file/file_name.txt','r') char = '' capitalize = capital(f) new_names = remove(capitalize) updated_list = count(new_names) ready = empty(updated_list, char) paired = pairs(ready) tohtml = listprint(paired) submit_time = (time.strftime('%m/%d/%Y @ %H:%M') + "\n") start_table = '''<html> <head><title>Suggested Names</title></head> <body> <p><a href="/website.html">Return to web site</a></p> <p><a href="/file.html">See alphabetized names</a></p> <a name="top"></a> <br> <br> <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr><th>Ranked Names</th></tr> ''' end_table = '''</table> <p><a href="#top">Return to top</a></p> <p>Last updated at</p> </body> </html>''' #write to the file on Server f=open('path_to_file/file_name','w+') print >>f, start_table for html_chunk in tohtml: print >> f, html_chunk print >> f,end_table, submit_time f.close() |
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